D/B Recommended: KRAKE Festival in Berlin / 11.08-15.08.2010 @ Berghain & Suicide Circus
KRAKE is a Berlin based festival for challenging electronic music. KILLEKILL and SALON DU KATZ have joined forces to bring this festival to life. KRAKE is about dancing, freaking and listening. Numerous groundbreaking artists could be assigned. Amongst those are IDM legends PLAID, techno avantgardist CRISTIAN VOGEL, electro futurist RADIOACTIVE MAN and breakbeat nerd BOGDAN [...]
D/B Recommended: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson LIVE in Berlin @ Privat Club | Friday, 17.09.2010
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson is a Norwegian emo/post-rock band, formed by journalism students in Bodø in 2003. The band is located in Oslo. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Combining electronic elements with soothing layers of dreamy guitars with pounding, jazzy and intricate beats. D/B highly recommended, not only for postrock fans!
D/B Recommended DENSEHALL with Rudi Zygadlo, DJ Cylob, P45 and more @ Jacki Terasse Berlin | Thursday, 12.08.2010
This time our friends from DENSE invited some of UK finest experimental musicians. Rudi Zygadlo, who is constantly exploring the overlapping borders of pop and dubstep, the legendary Cylob, one of the leading pioneers of post-rave electronica and DJ P45, a fresh young producer &DJ. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]But thats not all: [...]
D/B Recommended: anbb / Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld live in Berlin @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 17.09.2010
Electronic music composer / visual artist alva noto (carsten nicolai) and composer / voice-artist blixa bargeld (also known as singer of einstürzende neubauten and guitarist of nick cave and the bad seeds) decided to join forces to initiate a collaborative project in 2007. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Together they developed a musical concept [...]
D/B Recommended: Klangbad Festival | 6-8 August 2010
Certainly one of the finest festivals in existence, Klangbad takes place again this weekend with a line-up as diverse and interesting as ever including: Cluster, Golden Disko Ship, Jaki Liebezeit, Gustav, Jimi Tenor, Robert Lippok, A Hawk & A Hacksaw and many more. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]There are mainly 2 kinds of [...]
D/B Recommended: Bird,Lake,Objects – Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek @ General Public Berlin | 06.08.2010
DISK Session #20 presents Faitiche – a music label operated by Jan Jelinek – to celebrate the latest release Bird, Lake, Objects with a sound performance by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek, surrounded by original graphic works of Masayoshi Fujita. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Masayoshi Fujita’s route to Berlin was a roundabout one. [...]
D/B Recommended: Dâm-Funk, Rustie, Tokimonsta, Dimlite & Paul White @ Koko London | Saturday, 04.09.2010
Soundcrash presents a night of future sounds, twisted soul and irresistible boogie. D/B highly recommended! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 5 of the most exciting and innovative acts in the world at the moment join forces for what can only be described as a mother of a line-up. Koko’s grand surroundings provide the [...]
D/B Recommended: Wassermusik Open-Air-Festival in Berlin @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 22.07.–15.8.2010
The flair of the south sees and Caribbean sounds were the focus in the first two installments of this open air summer festival situated directly on the banks of the Spree. This time the subject is the great rivers that flow deep into the continent’s heart. TONIGHT: Omar Souleyman [Audio clip: view full post to [...]
D/B Recommended: Arvo Pärt Conference Soundtrack of an Age @ Royal Festival Hall London | 24.11.2010
Arvo Pärt’s transcendent music is one of the defining soundworlds of the last 30 years. Through media, concerts and recordings his work has crossed boundaries of religion & culture and established itself as one of the most popular and recognisable features of the contemporary musical landscape. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This two day [...]
D/B Recommended: Olafur Eliasson: Innen Stadt Außen in Berlin @ Martin-Gropius-Bau, 28 April to 9 August 2010
Innen Stadt Außen is the first solo exhibition by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Berlin institution. The exhibition’s central theme stems from Olafur Eliasson’s close relationship with Berlin, the city in which he has lived and worked for many years. It is also where he has set up his multi-faceted studio, combining the [...]
D/B Recommended: Aidan Baker Live in Berlin @ Schokoladen | Thursday, 04.11.2010
Aidan Baker is a musician and writer alternately based in Toronto and Berlin. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums, and various other instruments. As a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music [...]
D/B Recommended: Embryo live in Berlin @ Madame Claude | 30.08.2010
Embryo are considered one of the most important German Krautrock bands of the 1970s. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The musical collective from Munich has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of [...]
D/B Recommended: TERRY RILEY / TALVIN SINGH / GEORGE BROOKS LIVE in Berlin @ HKW Royal | Sunday, 24.10.2010
The concert on the occasion of Terry Riley’s 75th birthday: California Kirana. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Terry Riley, born June 24, 1935, is an American composer associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music. Riley began his long-lasting association with the Kronos Quartet by meeting its founder, David Harrington, while at [...]
D/B Recommended: BBE Hot Sauce – BBE SOUNDSYSTEM night with PETE & JON @ Kleine Reise Berlin | Saturday, 31.07.2010
BBE has been putting out quality vibes for the last two decades and is one of the most influential and respected independent labels in the business. From the legendary Beat Generation series to the critically acclaimed Disco/Rare Groove/Funk Comps by the most influential taste-makers in the business, BBE has always put quality first.
D/B Recommended: STERMANN & GRISSEMANN live in Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg | Friday, 24.09.2010
Stermann & Grissemann sind ein deutsch-österreichisches Satiriker-Duo, bestehend aus Dirk Stermann und Christoph Grissemann. Beide begannen ihre Karriere beim ORF, in dessen Rundfunkprogramm sie seit 1991 gemeinsam die Radiosendung Salon Helga betreiben. 1997 folgten erste Fernsehspiele, die im Rahmen der kunst-stücke ausgestrahlt wurden und seit 1998 betreiben sie auch bei Radio Eins eine Satiresendung.
D/B Recommended: Down By The River Festival in Berlin @ Bar25 | Saturday 24.07.2010
Normally a haven for Berlin’s nightlife, this Saturday Bar25 plays host to some of the finest indie acts around. This the second Down By The River festival is an all day extravaganza of live music starting at high noon. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Taking place in the beautiful setting of the Circus at [...]
The Berlin interactive 8-Bit City Map
City maps in the style of 1980s video games. The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space. The lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives [...]
D/B Recommended: LIFEM: London International Festival of Exploratory Music | 03–07 November 2010
Building on last year’s inaugural festival, the London International Festival of Exploratory Music (LIFEM) continues its musical journey with exciting exploratory sounds from all over the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]It begins by celebrating the 75th birthday of composer Terry Riley, the father of American minimalism.
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.
Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.
